£200 as apparantly all it needed was the water pump replacing, it came with the new pump and new belts which was nice! The guy I bought it off decided to remove the oil sump and exhaust downpipe for some strange reason. Also the sills are in a pretty bad way - hence £200!!Sorted the replacement thanks to Jim S and his cambelt change walkthrough.
Refitted the sump
& "tried" refitting the exhaust, started up and runs sweet apart from the crush rings not sealing on the manifold. One of the studs threads have stripped.So now the exhaust manifold had to be removed so I can rethread or replace the stud.
4 of the nuts came off the manifold to block ok, the other 2 looks like they may have stripped the threads in the block, plus the 2 bolts at the bottom of the manifold are solid, no amount of hammering / heating would make them budge.I think the only option I have is to drop the engine to get the manifold off and possibly helicoil the block.
Anyone have any pointers before I take on this daunting task? read through a few
"How To's" and looks straightforward enough.Cheers
